Analytical approximate solutions to oscillation of a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field

This paper is concerned with analytical approximate solutions to dynamic oscillation of a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field generated by a fixed current-carrying conductor parallel to the wire. The wire is restrained to a fixed wall by linear elastic springs. The periodic oscillation solutions are obtained by generalizing the Newton-harmonic balance method. The procedure yields rapid convergence with respect to the “exact” solution obtained by numerical integration. In general, the results are valid for small as well as large oscillation amplitude. The method presented in this paper can be applied to other strongly nonlinear oscillators with more general restoring forces of rational form.